Chapter 440: Apocalyptic Trading System (12)

But one has to wonder why university students have such strong adaptability; Xie Yan reacted and asked happily:

"Yang Yang, can I really choose all of them? If not, can I just choose the Thunder Element and Ice Element? The Thunder Element is simply the best for long-range attacks, and as for the Ice Element, it's too hot, I want to make some ice for myself, hehe."

Xie Yang thought for a moment and said: "That works too. Brother, you should adapt to these two first, and once you've practiced them well, you can add others. This way, it's also a bit more low-key."

Xie Yan nodded vigorously: "Brother will listen to you."

Xie Yongcheng, who was on the side: "..."

Obtaining two abilities at once, is this what you call low-key?

His silly daughter!

The next second, it was his turn to choose.

Xie Yang: "Dad, you are skilled at maintenance, do you want to choose the Metal Element? And add a Water Element?"

Once Yu Baozhi heard this, she agreed: "Water is good! Since the tap water stopped, using water has become increasingly inconvenient. Now, what we drink and use is all traded by Yang Yang. Lao Xie, if you have the Water ability, we won't have to be so secretive about using water at home."

Xie Yongcheng: "..."

Alright then!

He also got to enjoy his daughter's blessing and possessed dual abilities all at once!

After allocating the abilities, Xie Yang rearranged the entrance door and the perimeter wall.

The entrance door was replaced with a thick steel plate door, and an electric fence was erected on top of the perimeter wall.

After finishing these tasks, the family of four returned to their respective rooms to rest.

The father and son had slept soundly during the day, so they couldn't fall asleep for a while, but considering the mother and daughter had been rushing on the road all day and must be very tired, they didn't continue chatting or familiarizing themselves with their newly acquired abilities, and also returned to their rooms to lie down quietly.

The next day, Xie Yang woke up to the sound of birds chirping, stretched, got up to pull back the floor-to-ceiling curtains, and walked to the balcony.

"Awake? How did you sleep?"

Xie Yan, who had gotten up half an hour ago, was in the courtyard quietly practicing the Ice Control Technique against the Water Element—

Freezing the pool in one go, waiting for the twenty-eight or twenty-nine-degree temperature to naturally melt the ice, and then freezing it again.

Seeing his sister wake up, he stopped practicing, turned around, and walked to the balcony where Xie Yang was, asking with unconcealed excitement: "Are we going out today?"

According to Yu Baozhi's thinking, since they had finally settled down and were not lacking in food or drink, there was no need to go out and take risks.

But the father and son felt they should go out.

Firstly, to get a feel for official information so as not to miss any important news; secondly, they had abilities now, but they needed to train them. Otherwise, if they encountered danger later and their lives were lost because they couldn't use their abilities skillfully, wouldn't that be a huge loss?

Furthermore, everyone else was out looking for supplies, and it would always seem out of place for their family to hide inside. Even if they were the only household in this residential complex right now, it never hurts to be careful.

Finally, Xie Yan also said one more thing to his sister: "Your Trading Ability isn't purely for output; it also requires input. Dad and I discussed going to get some valuable goods like gold, silver, and jewelry for you to use. Things are chaotic outside now, and people don't value jewelry as much as food and drink, so we should be able to get quite a bit. If it really doesn't work, we'll just trade compressed biscuits for them."

Xie Yang had this plan as well, but since her Trading Coins were still quite abundant, she wasn't in a rush.

She said: "Let's clear out the Zombies in the residential complex these two days. Once you and Dad are familiar with your abilities, then we'll go outside."

"That's good!" Yu Baozhi heard the siblings talking and, knowing her daughter was awake, came to call them for breakfast. Hearing this, she supported it: "Just listen to your sister."

Xie Yan shrugged, indicating he had no objections.

He just wanted to try using his abilities to kill Zombies; whether it was outside the complex or inside didn't really matter.

Moreover, if the Zombies inside the complex weren't cleared out, it was indeed a safety hazard; who knew if they would wander into the vicinity.

"Then it's settled! After breakfast, we'll go clear out the Zombies in the complex!"

Breakfast was relatively simple; they used the leftover old duck soup from last night to cook a batch of noodles.

Yu Baozhi also forced the growth of some baby bok choy and two Tomatoes, washed them, chopped them, and put them in the pot.

Green bok choy, red Tomatoes, bright yellow duck soup, white sun-dried noodles... the family of four was so busy eating they didn't even have time to talk.

It was too fresh!

It was too delicious!

Xie Yan finished a large bowl before he had time to speak: "Mom used to stew old duck soup often, and I've eaten noodles cooked in leftover soup before, so why hasn't it ever tasted this good?"

Yu Baozhi glanced at him: "You were a picky eater back then. Have you been picky these past few days?"

Xie Yan: "..."

Never mind being picky, it was good enough just to have something to eat.

It seems one only learns to cherish things after losing them.

After eating and drinking their fill, they left Yu Baozhi to watch the house, and Xie Yongcheng took his son and daughter out to check for safety hazards within the residential complex.

"Yang Yang, if we encounter Zombies in a moment, don't make a move yet; leave it to Dad and me."

Hearing Xie Yan's eager expression, Xie Yang nodded.

Not long after he finished speaking, they saw one. Judging by the clothing, it was likely a cleaner before death.

Xie Yan didn't say a word and started brandishing his Lightning Spear.

At first, he was indeed a bit clumsy, and his aim was off; several times he shocked the nearby trees and walls, leaving behind scorch marks.

Fortunately, after adapting, he became much more accurate. With the high-temperature Lightning Spear, he slashed at the Zombie's neck, separating the head from the body, and only then did it stop moving completely.

Xie Yang found the scene hard to look at, so she followed behind her brother to finish them off, turning the Zombie corpses into ash.

She had tried recycling Zombies into the Trading System. Wasn't it said that everything could be traded? Zombies should also belong to "everything," right?

As a result, the system gave an evaluation: 【The master of the plane and transformed forms are not accepted for recycling.】

The master of this plane is humanity, and Zombies are considered a transformed form of humanity.

Fine, she knew there was no such good thing.

Xie Yang turned all the unsightly Zombie corpses into ash.

Xie Yongcheng used his Metal Spell to pull out a metal railing surrounding the power distribution room, made a cast-iron dustpan, and shoveled up the Zombie Ash:

"Your mom said this morning she wanted to grow some vegetables in the courtyard. I don't know if this ash has any effect on fertilizing the fields, so I'll take it back and try. If it's useful, it counts as turning waste into treasure."

Xie Yang: "..."

Upon hearing this, Xie Yan became even more enthusiastic about searching for and clearing out Zombies:

"If wood ash can fertilize fields, then high-protein Zombie Ash certainly can too; I think it's bound to be useful. Just wait! I'll get Mom plenty more fertilizer."

"..."

Yu Baozhi was not idle at home either.

She now had great strength, so everything she did was effortless.

First, she loosened every bit of soil around the front and back of the house; what use was turf? It was better to clear out a few vegetable patches.

Before her daughter left, she had given her a bag of vegetable seeds, which contained all sorts of different varieties.

Now that she had the Plant Domestication Technique, she didn't need to worry about the seasons; she could plant whatever she wanted to eat.

Eggplants, Cucumbers, and small Tomatoes that her daughter loved to eat—plant them!

Rapeseed, peas, and tender peanuts that her son loved to eat—plant them!

Spinach, celery, and Malabar spinach that her husband loved to eat—plant them!

And the pumpkins, winter melons, and zucchini she liked best herself... she planted a few of each as well.

Crops that liked moisture were planted closer to the Water Element, while crops that liked dry conditions were placed near the corners of the walls.

Along the wall edge with severe western exposure, she planted two grapevines.

In the shaded corners, she planted some green onions, ginger, and garlic.

The Water Element in the Heyuan was designed quite beautifully, with a pond, a stream, and a small waterfall; if there was any shortcoming, it was that it was a bit too miniature.

If not for her daughter's Trading Ability, once the tap water stopped, this water would certainly have been prioritized for daily living; how could they bear to use it for irrigation?

But now, there was no shortage of drinking water, and this bit of water in the Water Element was more than enough to irrigate the vegetable patches.